Petter Klang
Jun 16, 2009
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Ever needed the process id of the applicationPool?

I often find myself debugging sites that run on machines that have a lot of sites up and running. So when I need to attach my VS to the process I usually have at least three (often more) w3wp.exe processes running. A neat little command that my colleague Sebastian gave me the other day has helped me a lot. “iisapp” run this command in a command window and it will give you a list of all the process ids for the applicationPools.

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iisapp seems to only work for Windows server. But for vista “appcmd.exe list wp” gives the same result. Not as easy to remember but still.

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Nothing big but though I would share as it helped me a lot.

Jun 16, 2009

Comments

Sep 21, 2010 10:32 AM

Nice post. I often get in a siutation where I can see alot of processes while debugging my test site.

Sep 21, 2010 10:32 AM

Another solutions is to mark all the w3wp-processes.. :)
/ Erik Nordin (erik.nordin@ottobonigroup.com)

Nov 6, 2010 11:37 PM

You can also integrate it with Visual Studio. :)

http://blog.bergdaniel.se/post/Resolving-w3wp-processes-in-Vista-with-Visual-Studio.aspx

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